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Nelson & Area, BC, Canada • THIRD AGE LEARNING • September 2016 • Issue 13

Inside The Flowers of Idaho Lookout & Sandon Museum. July 25 this issue embers visited Idaho Lookout to enjoy the wild This quality of event programing distinguishes LiR! Mflowers. They also enjoyed the museum at Sandon. Special thanks to Brian Deon for his fabulous photo- Review...... 1 graphs of this trip, shown here and on pages 7 & 8.

Board and Committee

Reports ...... 2

Interview ...... 3

Multi-Session Courses ...... 5

Friday Drop Ins . . . . 10

More Reviews. . . . . 11

Member Milestones ...... 12

Registration Form ...... see insert

In partnership with Nelson’s Learning in Retirement offers our 50+ community the opportunity to explore old and new interests in a relaxed and stimulating learning environment. LiR members work in partnership with Community Education and Workplace Training at Selkirk College (Nelson) to develop andLiR provide Journal a diverse• 1 program • January of speakers, 2016 courses and other activities for its members New Board Bios

Mary Baker, and cultural activities. What I want to contribute to LiR is a Membership Committee sincere support of the intelligent and motivated seniors in this Organizer and lifelong learner keen, community who continue to learn. I’m a good match for the LiR scene! Gerda Liebenow, Judy Biggin, Social and Archives Committees Chair of Board My family immigrated in 1968 from Hanover, Germany, to I enjoy the challenge of working with others: envisioning a Nelson and we put down roots in this community. I enjoy project or idea, fleshing out the framework in a group of LiR volunteering and the life-long learning experience. LiR serves members, then planning the steps and roles to bring the plan the socializing needs of the senior population and I like to do into concrete reality. This process has been put to the test my best to contribute. working with Learning in Retirement! Jana Malinek, Grace Devaux, Finance and Program Committees Communications and Finance Committees I was born in the former Czechoslovakia (Czech Republic) Learning has been a passion all my life. Teaching Life Skills where I earned my Master’s Degree in Science then taught to adults with Special Needs both in Alberta and at Selkirk high school biology & science. In 1980, I immigrated to Can- College in the Kootenays has taught me the value of nurturing ada, worked in the Science faculty at U of Sask. and at Plant the whole person. LiR embraces this philosophy and in our Biotechnology Institute in Saskatoon. In 1990 I moved to the retirement we can choose what is important to us, share and Kootenays, re-certified at UBC and taught Biology in inter- continue to learn together. national schools in different countries. I retired in 2009. My major hobbies: nature photography and travel. Laura Duncan, Communications and Archives Committees Sandra Tozer, Use it or lose it! Keep your brain active and you will be much Program Committee happier and healthier. I have been a learner all my life and I Being a member on the LiR Board will show me what it takes to do not intend to stop now! I completed high school here in the run an organization such as Learning in Retirement. I look for- Kootenays, went on to attend Art School for four years, then ward to working with the friendly and talented Board members. UBC for two more years. I love being around people who are enthused about their experiences. It is contagious! Janet Stangvik, Social Committee Hoda Ghamrawy, I so appreciate LiR and what it gives to me. I want to give Vice Chair and Program Committee back to this dynamic organization. I have served on vari- LiR offers the opportunity for creative and critical thinking. ous boards for the past 17+ years from churches, interfaith Besides respecting by-laws and insurance issues, I also look councils and women’s shelter homes. I bring experience and for solutions and common ground. Assessing the safety factor enthusiasm to the LiR board. Janet is not in the group picture. and inclusivity is important. LiR offers activities based on expressed interest, and members take responsibility for the success of any of the opportunities offered. PLEASE CONSIDER JOINING. Pat Gibson, Secretary/Treasurer, Membership Committee LiR needs more members on the Board. I obtained my education in Alberta and spent many years in the field of Public Health Nursing and Community Health in Contact any Board member and this region. My two adult children were born and raised in Nelson, as now are my two grandchildren. I feel fortunate to you will be welcomed! live in this beautiful river valley with its outdoor opportunities

LiR Journal • 2 • September 2016 • 3 • Reports

Message from the Chair By Judy Biggin he LiR Board and I extend a very warm welcome to all the area. So please consider becoming a volunteer this year. We Treturning members and new members of Learning in Retire- need you for the various committees, particularly at this time ment. We have an extensive program of courses and activities, for the Program Committee (the engine of LiR) and the Mem- the largest in our seven year history, more than enough to please bership Committee (welcoming and keeping track of new and any palate. It covers our mandate of providing opportunities for old members of LiR). Approach me, a member of the Board or social connection, intellectual stimulation and physical activity. the head of a committee, and we will welcome your participation with open arms and much appreciation. This new season of a full programing for you, our members, reminds me that it would not be there but for our volunteers. Fresh and new ideas from our newer members keeps LiR vi- No one gets paid! We all volunteer because it’s challenging, brant and alive and reflects your interests. stimulating and fun. We see LiR as a valuable asset for our Here’s to an exciting, stimulating year! 50+ age community, for Selkirk College and for Nelson and

From the Communications Committee By Grace Devaux s our LiR membership grows and evolves so do our pub- Please note — during LiR courses, activities and events, Alications. We have decided to call all five annual editions pictures of members are taken. Signing the registration form the Journal. indicates that you are agreeable to possibly having your photo published. If you do not consent, please advise the Communi- The September, January and May editions will be sent out cations Committee Chair. both electronically and printed in colour. November and March editions will be sent out only electronically with a few Members are encouraged to take photos at LiR events and extra copies printed in black and white. A course registration courses. Please email them with a description of the highlights form will be offered on a separate insert. of the event. They may be selected to be published. Registration starts in September and January on the Friday of Submissions for member Milestones such as new publica- the Meet and Greet event. Payment of membership in May is tions, awards and newsworthy items should also be emailed to good through the following year. Grace Devaux, Communications Committee Chair.

Membership Committee Report By Pat Gibson elcome everyone to another exciting year of Learning in and other updates, when appropriate, will be posted on the WRetirement. You, the members, are the reason for this com- Selkirk College LiR website. mittee. Members of the committee will work in cooperation with The committee will continue to welcome new members at Selkirk College, to ensure the membership list is kept current, and each Friday session and to provide printed orientation infor- that everyone is receiving email information and the Journal in a mation. A suggestion box will also be available for member timely and efficient way. For members without email access, the input and feedback. Journal will be sent by postal delivery. This year, a Survey-Monkey survey will be initiated to seek When possible, information such as the current Board of information from members on a voluntary basis, regarding Directors, meeting minutes, Annual General Meeting minutes, their demographics, their interests, suggestions, and questions.

LiR 2016 -2017 Board Members contact info • Mary Baker, Membership Committee • Hoda Ghamrawy, • Jana Malinek, [email protected] Program Committee Finance & Program Committees • Judy Biggin, Chair of Board [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] • Pat Gibson, Board Secretary-Treasurer • Sandra Tozer, Program Committee • Grace Devaux, Communication & Finance & Membership Committee [email protected] Committees. [email protected] [email protected] • Janet Stangvik, Social Committee • Laura Duncan, • Gerda Liebenow, [email protected] Communication & Archives Committees Social & Archives Committees [email protected] [email protected]

LiR Journal • 3 • September 2016 Interview

RON GARNER A founding member of LiR By Patrick Quinn-Young

Patrick: On February 23rd, 2009, along with Birthe Achtner, Jim Hearn, Sarah Judith and I, you joined us for lunch at the Vienna Cafe to discuss the formation of an ad hoc group of retired Nelsonites to share their life’s experiences and skills. Carol Zubick from Selkirk College joined us and I have a vivid memory of that first meeting. How did you find out about the meeting and what drew you in? Ron: In November 2008, I bumped into Roger Oliver at the Capitol Theatre. We chatted about our lives in education and discovered we had similar interests in continuing education. He mentioned he’d spoken to Birthe Achtner and they’d ar- ranged to meet in the new year. Patrick: There was much enthusiasm at that first meeting. Ron Garner Ron: Yes, Carol Zubick was very supportive, and with her three years I was ready to put down some roots, so in 1980 I on board it appeared we had a venue in which to gather like accepted the position as Assistant Superintendent of Schools minded people. We were all very excited and Birthe suggested for Kelowna. Six years later, after the completion of the that we meet again. On March 30, along with Roger, we met Coquihalla Highway, the population really exploded and we again. Cynthia Quinn-Young and Pat Vincent joined us and were constructing new schools, adding to existing schools, or became part of the founding group. We held two further meet- renovating older ones. I was there until I retired in 1996. ings before inviting the general public to an open house at the Nelson Public Library on June 9, 2009. We drew them in Patrick: You are now a well known author, when did you start writing? with refreshments and snacks and Learning in Retirement was Ron: When I retired my own health was deteriorating rap- born. A board of directors was elected and our first sessions idly. Pharmaceutical solutions prescribed by doctors weren’t started at Selkirk College’s Silver King Campus in September providing any relief. I decided I had to heal myself. I believed that year. that the body is supposed to be healed by natural means. My health improved and when I was back to normal I wrote my Patrick: You said you were in education, where and how did this start? first book: After the Doctors, What can you do? Published in Ron: From high school in Nelson I went to UBC in Vancouver, October 2001. In 2006, my book, Conscious Health, won the where, after five years I graduated with my Bachelor of Edu- prestigious Nautilus Award in the USA for the best health and cation degree, majoring in Phys.Ed and Mathematics. My first healing book published that year. That gave me impetus to job as a teacher was at J. Lloyd Crowe High School in Trail for continue writing. two years. After that I took a year off to travel and clear my head before returning to teach in Steveston for another couple Patrick: Your latest book, The Disease Free Revolution is excellent, are of years. From there I went into the interior for a year to teach you continuing to write? at the North Kamloops Secondary School. My ambition was Ron: Not at the moment, I’m catching up with sports. to move up the chain in administration, so in 1966 and ’67 I Patrick: We especially liked the Pub Quizzes you ran for three years. Did went south to the University of Oregon, at Eugene. I got my you dream up the idea? Masters degree in Education Administration and returned to Ron: When Blaise and I went to England a few years ago we British Columbia. In Salmon Arm I became Vice Principal of enjoyed the atmosphere and quizzes in the country pubs, and I J. L. Jackson Secondary School for one year before being pro- felt I should start them within our LiR organization. Our quiz- moted to Principal for another three years, until 1971. From zes were a lot of fun and I enjoyed being the Quizmaster. there I moved to the Fraser Valley to take up the Principal’s position at the secondary school in Agassiz, until 1977. Patrick: You are President of the Senior’s Curling Club, what other activities and sports do you do? Patrick: Cynthia and I had a sheep farm in Bradner at that time, not far from you, and we often went to Agassiz. It’s possible we may have met? Ron: We fish, play golf and camp as often as possible, usually 6 to 8 times a year depending on the weather. We also visit Ron: I don’t think our paths crossed at that time. It was a very family on both coasts, so we don’t have time to sit around busy time for us. I was married with two young children and much. I was six when I fished for the first time, when my fam- the school occupied most of my time. I moved on in 1977 ily moved to Procter from Alberta. We’d taken the Nasookin when I was offered the position as Regional Superintendent of up the Kootenay Lake and as we approached the Procter dock Schools for the government of the Yukon Territory. I accept- I saw several families fishing off the wharf. I was hooked. ed and moved my family to Whitehorse. The Yukon is vast and I traveled a great deal to the schools dotted throughout Patrick: What are your most vivid memories of your life in Procter? the territory. Growing up in Procter I’d spent much of my Ron: Riding the stern-wheelers on the lake at every opportuni- time fishing and hunting and I’d become accustomed to the ty and fishing off the shore as much as possible, and it’s great outdoor life. The Yukon offered so much more, however after to be back living in this beautiful Kootenay valley.

LiR Journal • 4 • September 2016 • 5 • Multi-Session Courses • Fall Term, September - December 2016

A 21-DAY JOURNEY TO HEALTH Bone broth and fermented vegetables. Preparing nuts. Gathering Wednesdays – Sept. 14, 21; Oct. 12 - 1:00 – 2:30 your support team. Instructor: Ulla Devine Session 2: The Launch! Moving and relaxing. $9 plus tax - 3 sessions. Enrollment: Min 10 / Max 30 Setting the stage and final preparations. Checklists! Location: Silver King Campus Rm 114 Dietary and lifestyle changes can have an immediate and miraculous Session 3: Celebration and sharing stories and insights. effect on our overall health by bringing balance to our digestive and The next steps! all other systems of our body. Ulla is a practicing Colon Hydro therapist living and working near Join me in a three-week journey to experience these benefits and Nelson, BC. She is certified by the Natural Health Outreach School implement lifestyle changes long term that work for you as an in Penticton, BC, and is a member of the International Association individual. for Colon Hydrotherapy (I-ACT) and the Academy of Naturopaths Session 1: Preparation for your 21-Day Journey. and Naturotherapists (A.N.N.) She enjoys coaching people on how to Recipes, shopping lists, and tips. Vegetarian and other options. make the necessary changes, one step at a time.

THE LIFE & DEATH OF STARS 2nd class: Hydrogen fusion in stellar mass and large mass stars and Fridays – Sept.16, 23, 30 - 1:00 – 3:00 how this becomes the heat and light we experience. rd Instructor: Wayne Holmes 3 class: How different stars end their lives and what remains. $9 plus tax - 3 sessions. Enrollment: Min 8 / Max 20 Wayne is a member of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada and th Location: 10 Street Campus Rm. P310 host of Taghum Hall’s “Starry Night Astronomy Program”. He has 1st class: How stars are created from cold, molecular interstellar gas. had a life-long interest in the night sky.

THE THIRD LIR WEST KOOTENAY Itinerary: Nelson-Castlegar-Krestova-Crescent Valley-Passmore. Bring your lunch, snack and plenty of water. GEOLOGY TOUR Wear good walking shoes. We will examine rocks, minerals, mines and Sept. 19, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm fossil samples. Instructor: Lesley Anderton $15 plus tax (plus cost of carpooling). 1 session. Enrollment: Max 18 Lesley Anderton taught Geology at Selkirk College for many years 9:00 am Meet for carpooling and introductory lecture at Silver King until her retirement. Campus Room 114. At 10:00 am the tour begins!

WATERCOLOUR PAINTING demonstration and painting practice. Tuesdays – Sept. 20, 27, Oct. 4, 11, 18, 25 - 10:00 – 11:30 am Norm worked as a machine tool-maker in England, Toronto and Instructor: Norm Watts Vancouver and on various construction sites around BC. He $18 plus tax - 6 sessions. Enrollment: Min 8 / Max 20 graduated from UBC with a degree in Fine Arts and completed Location: Kootenay School of the Arts (KSA) Room 311 Teacher Training Certification at Notre Dame, Nelson. He taught Each session will start with an introduction and discussion of industrial arts, math, and other courses in our local school district. subjects such as colour, perspective, principles and elements Since retiring, he has spent some of his leisure time de-mystifying of design and composition. This will be followed by a painting the art of watercolour painting.

THE JOY OF BRIDGE coupled with increasing skill levels. The course will include Tuesdays – Sept. 20, 27, Oct. 4, 11, 18, 25 - 2:00 – 4:00 pm information on bidding and the use of principal bridge systems Instructor: Angus Paton (conventions, card distribution and defensive strategies). Critical to $18 plus tax - 6 sessions. Enrollment: Min 8 / Max 24 the success of the course will be the enjoyment factor and the fun Location: 10th Street Campus Rm. P310 we will have! Come and join us irrespective of your current level of Emphasis will be placed on learning by playing in a friendly knowledge of the game. congenial atmosphere with occasional “interference” by the Angus Paton is a retired banker and has enjoyed recreational bridge instructor! The objective will be to encourage confidence building over the years, winning or losing!

NELSON’S ART DECO ARCHITECTURE to the Nelson scene. The last class (October 13) will be a drive/ walking tour to some of the most important buildings in town. FROM 1920s TO THE 1960s Thursdays – Sept. 22, 29, Oct. 6, 13 - 10:00 - 11:30 am Peter has been teaching design at the University of Alberta for almost Instructor: Peter Bartl 30 years and has developed an interest in the history of design and $12 plus tax - 4 sessions. Enrollment: Min 8 / Max 20 architecture of the 20th century. Location: 10th Street Campus Rm P309 While living in Balfour, he conducted two history walking tours Nelson is rich in heritage buildings, but the ones from the 1920s around Balfour. He was also involved in the rescue of the Anscomb to the 1960s are often overlooked. This course will draw the wheelhouse that now can be visited at the Balfour Ferry landing. participant’s attention to the most important buildings in Nelson He also did the research and the design of the information panels of that period, reveal a bit of their history, help identify stylistic that are part of the Anscomb display. Since moving into Nelson, he elements and relate the main architectural trends of the 20th century has been involved with the history community as well as with LiR.

LiR Journal • 5 • September 2016 Multi-Session Courses • Fall Term, September - December 2016 Multi-Session Courses • Fall Term, September - December 2016

DANCE YOUR FITNESS own inner beat, and moving in a manner that the music flows you. Thursdays – Sept. 22, 29, Oct. 6, 13, 20. 1:30 – 2:30 pm It is self-activated from within. Fast, slow—it is up to you to pace Instructor: Bo Pearce yourself. Movement will be demonstrated so that you can move into $15 plus tax; plus a facility rental fee of $14, paid to the account ways of moving that you have never tried before. When you do this, of LiR at Nelson Credit Union before first session - 5 sessions it expands your perception of yourself and your world. You can Enrollment: Min 15 / Max 25 actually heal old-held memories by moving in ways that have been Location: White Church – 602 Kootenay St. blocked by your mind from letting you move in a certain manner. (corner of Kootenay and Victoria) This course is not about learning dance steps. It is not even about Bo Pearce has many years of teaching experience. Bo received her dancing in a fashion you are used to dancing. This course is about YMCA instructor certification to teach fitness classes when living DANCE MOVEMENT. It is your highly individualized movement to in Calgary. Dancing was always a love in her life but the Kootenays music. It is not about looking good but rather allowing the music really brought it into her awareness when she experienced her own to move you. It’s about getting out of your head, allowing your inner expansion through dance movement.

POETRY COURSE Over the Fall semester a number of accomplished poets will explore Fridays - Sept. 23, Oct 7, 21, Nov 4, 25. 1:00 – 2:30 pm with us the art and craft of poetry. No experience is necessary! The Instruction: Guest poets, Margaret Hornby, Art Joyce and Kathy course is designed to encourage participants to start or continue Hartley. Organized by Margaret Hornby and Judy Biggin. writing poetry in a comfortable environment with lots of fun. See $15 plus tax – 5 sessions. Enrollment: Min 6 / Max 12 Deanna Reid’s poem, Our Poetry Group, page 12, in this issue. Location: Silver King campus Rm. 114

POETRY WORKSHOP Chapbook Award and was published by the Ontario Poetry Society Monday – Sept. 26 - 10:00 – 12:00 noon in October 2015. Liebich’s poetry has appeared in R.K.V.R.Y Journal Instructor: Rayya Liebich (July 2015) and Offshoots Anthology (Geneva, Switzerland 2015). $3 plus tax - 1 session. Enrollment: Min 8 / Max 25 Her essay RADICAL CHOICES won the Geneva Literary Award in Location: Silver King Campus Rm. 114 2015 and her play THREE MINUTES was awarded first prize in Play with words, discover the craft of poetry. Through reading, guided the Kootenay Literary Competition in 2005. Liebich is a graduate activities, prompts, and poetic techniques open your understanding of McGill University (B.A. English Literature) and has ten years and joy of writing. All levels and life experiences welcome! teaching experience at the Nelson Waldorf School. She teaches Liminal Life Writing at Oxygen Art Centre (Fall and Spring 2015/16) Rayya Liebich discovered the transformative potential of writing and a series called “Writing Through the Grief” at Kalein Hospice as a vehicle for healing following the death of her mother in 2014. (Spring 2016). Liebich volunteers year round at Mt. Lakes Seniors Her collection TELL ME EVERYTHING won the Golden Grassroots home offering a Life Writing program for elders.

CURIOUS ABOUT HISTORY II Africa or First Nations: those regions are outside his sphere. The Saturdays – Oct. 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, Nov. 5, 12, 19, 26, topics will be decided by class in the first 2 meetings or perhaps Dec. 3 - 9:30 – 11:30 am students will wait and express their choices in e-mail. Please be Facilitator: Charles Jeanes prepared to ask for one topic of your interest. Please phone Charles if $30 plus tax - 10 sessions. Enrollment: Min 8 / Max 20 you have any questions: 250- 352 6416. Location: Silver King Campus Rm. 117 An Ontario-bred WASP, passionate about history from an early age, This course is student-driven. Topics are set by the class. Students Charles came to BC in 1978 and to Nelson in 1987. He has taught may elect to present a short (15 min to 45 min) address/lecture/ in the public school system and been a journalist. “I want students slide show, etc., of a topic of their choice to the class, or not. The who are my age-peers now, not my juniors whom I must mentor and facilitator will fill in the rest of the time. Discussion is very much evaluate,” Charles says. “History is background to what we most care wanted in this class and hopefully the students will be prepared to about which is our present. To know history is to have some context carry it on after the presentations. Generally, we have time for our for the present. I love to talk about how history is supposed to be conversation. Informed conversation is the goal, of course. known and how it is not really a body of objective ‘facts’”. Charles The facilitator, Charles, is ready to present talks for topics of ancient, expects to learn as much from students now as he teaches which is medieval, and modern European history; North America from why he emphasizes that in class we are peers. Our life experience is colonial times is also his study area. But not the histories of Asia, history, too, and it is all relevant to the present.

OPEN TO A NEW PERCEPTION lecturers. Once we become aware of these discoveries we may find Mondays – Oct. 3, 17, 24, 31, Nov. 7 - 10:30 – 12:00 noon ourselves rethinking and expanding the very nature of our own Instructor: Bo Pearce reality. Classes will be composed of approximately 40 minutes of $15 plus tax - 5 sessions. Enrollment: Min 8 / Max 25 video, followed by class discussion Location: Silver King Campus Rm. 114 Through videos and discussion, become aware of life-altering Bo Pearce acts as a facilitator of this class. Bo has many years of discoveries founded in sciences such as Neuroscience, Quantum business teaching experience, first starting with SAIT in Calgary, Physics, Archeology, and Consciousness Studies. These specifically and then, after moving to Nelson, operating her own computer skills chosen videos may challenge accepted norms. Videos will include courses for 17 years. Bo has a life-long interest in seeking answers to talks and interviews by well-known scientists, researchers, and mysteries and likes to share new found mind-expanding discoveries.

LiR Journal • 6 • September 2016 • 7 • Multi-Session Courses • Fall Term, September - December 2016

STOCKS & READING CHARTS back and play in the market part-time (maybe just weekends or Mondays – Oct. 3, 17, 24, 31 - 1:00 – 3:00 pm evenings), or if you want to trade regularly every day for income, Instructor: Cal Reeks or if you simply want to be able to understand where your current $12 plus tax - 4 sessions. Enrollment: Min 8 / Max 30 investments stand. This second offering will feature new and Location: 10th Street Campus Rm. P307 updated information and resources for those who have taken the This course is about trading, buying and selling, and having first offering last February. fun reading and deciphering a chart without having to learn the fundamentals of the market. There will be lots of class participation Cal Reeks moved from Vancouver to Nelson in the fall of 2013 after and some fun games to play while learning how it all works. learning how to trade and then semi-retiring. He took a trading Have fun and learn at the same time, whether you want to sit course from the Online Trading Academy and studied many books.

SEXUAL HEALTH & AGING took the first course as there will be new activities and some new Tuesdays – Oct. 4, 11, 18, 25 - 10:00 – 11:30 am information. Instructor: Judith Fearing $12 plus tax - 4 sessions. Enrollment: Min 8 / Max 20 Judith Fearing is a registered nurse with over 30 years experience Location: Silver King Campus Rm. 114 who believes strongly in non-judgmental sexual health education. Four weekly sessions exploring a variety of topics through stories, She has worked throughout the region in Planned Parenthood videos, questions, and discussion. Topics such as aging, sexual Clinics, on-campus student-run clinics, and she was recently health, navigating the years, communicating and consent. As well, certified as an Opt Sexual Health Educator. Judith is eager to Judith will address interests and concerns brought up in class. once again offer the popular “Sex and Aging” course to our LiR This course is for new students but will also benefit students who members.

THE BASICS OF MAKING BEAUTIFUL We will look at the variety of shapes, vases and hardware as well as some modern techniques in making interesting and beautiful FLOWER ARRANGEMENTS arrangements. There will be a small additional cost for supplies. Tuesdays – Oct. 4, 11, 18, 25 - 1:00 – 2:30 pm Instructor: Margaret Hodges $12 plus tax - 4 sessions. Enrollment: Min 8 /Max 12 Margaret Hodges has been crafting and making arrangements her Location: Silver King Campus Rm. 114 whole life. She taught the popular LiR course “Making Crafts with Based on the fundamental elements of flower arranging, this Natural Materials.” She recently graduated with honours from a course will cover flowers, greenery and their relation in a design. floral design course and is excited to share what she has learned.

MUSIC OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA Hop, Gospel, Pop, and many more. Through singing, musicking and Thursdays – Oct. 6, 13, 20, 27 - 3:30 – 5:00 pm dance we will experience this variety of styles. Instructor: John Galm $12 plus tax - 4 sessions. Enrollment: Min 8 / Max 15 John Galm has taught World Musics, Hand Drumming, and Location: Silver King Campus Rm. 114 Storytelling with wife Alyne, and Culture Vultures with Roger The musical journey from West Africa via the slaves to North Oliver. He is Emeritus Professor of Music from the University of America has been the basis of many musics: Blues, Jazz, Rock, Hip Colorado in Ethnomusicology. He has lived in Nelson for five years.

CONTRARIAN EXPLORATIONS debate the following session. Participants will be expected to check Tuesdays – Oct. 11, 25, Nov. 8, 22, Dec. 6 - 10:00 – 11:30 am their assumptions and firm opinions at the door and to keep an Instructor: Heather Myers open mind – there may be some surprises encountered! A principal $15 plus tax - 5 sessions. Enrollment: Min 8 / Max 20 goal is to examine and critically evaluate different positions. Each Location: 10th Street Campus Rm. P315 participant will be in two debates. Don’t worry – no formal debate Let’s test some pat assumptions. For example: What is more rules, but a respectful exchange of quality information and ideas. sustainable – fur or fleece? What will feed the world – organic Caveat: you may not necessarily be defending the position you production or industrial farming? Topics will be selected in our normally hold. introductory session. For each session, we will assign half the class into two teams to take both sides of a debate. They will have Heather Myers’ first career was involved with resource two weeks to research the topic and their positions, using peer- management, conservation and environmental issues in the reviewed and quality information sources, then will present their Canadian North. Her second career was as a professor at the arguments to the class. Half the class will be the audience and University of Northern BC where she taught International Studies may question the debate teams, and then they will take over the and Northern Studies.

LiR Journal • 7 • September 2016 Multi-Session Courses • Fall Term, September - December 2016

MEDICAL MARIJUANA: the current state of access to medical cannabis. For the first time there will be a focus on practical knowledge covering topics like HISTORY, HEALTH & ACCESS gardening, harvesting, and cooking with cannabis. Fridays – Oct. 14, 21, 28 - 1:00 – 2:30 Instructor: Jim Leslie $9 plus tax - 3 sessions. Enrollment: Min 8 / Max 25 Jim Leslie holds a Bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice, is a retired Location: Silver King Campus Rm. 16 Border Services Officer, is an active member of Law Enforcement Join Jim and special guests from the medical cannabis industry on a Against Prohibition and Stop the Violence. He is a 17-year activist fascinating journey into the world of medical cannabis (marijuana). for cannabis policy reform. Jim is also a medical cannabis patient. Jim will cover the history of human interaction with cannabis, the Jim worked in the Vancouver medical cannabis dispensary industry plant’s vast array of medical compounds, the human body’s own for 1.5 years. He and his partners opened Grand Forks’ first medical system that produces compounds just like those in cannabis and cannabis dispensary – The Kootenay’s Medicine Tree.

LOCAL AUTHORS – SERIES II Local authors will read from their published works; share tips on the Wednesdays – Oct. 19, 26, Nov. 2, 9 - 1:00 – 2:30 pm writing process; and give insight to the excitement and challenge of Instructors: Various local authors being a writer today! Facilitator: Diane Watts Our featured authors include Donna MacDonald, Kathy Hartley, $12 plus tax - 4 sessions. Enrollment: Min 8 / Max 25 Vangie Bergund, Cyndi Sand-Eveland, Ross Klatte, Amanda Bath, Location: 10th Street Campus Rm. P310 Alanda Greene and Eileen Delahanty-Pearkes.

COMPARATIVE RELIGIONS Instructors: Tuesdays – Nov. 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, Dec. 6 - 1:00 – 2:30 pm • Reverend David Boyd, Minister of the Nelson United Church of Instructors: 5 religious local leaders from the Christian, Jewish, Canada representing the Christian tradition Buddhist and Sufi Religions • Stuart and Willow, practicing Sufis of the Islamic tradition, Facilitators: Janet Stangvik and Marilyn Thurrott present ‘dances of universal peace’ $18 plus tax - 6 sessions. Enrollment: Min 12 / Max 25 • Anath Grebler, a practicing Jew, teaches about the Jewish faith Location: Silver King Campus Rm. 114 and traditions, and Israel’s role in the world Each week a local religious leader/practitioner will speak on the origins, the importance of historical figures, the practices and rituals, • Shastri (teacher) Russ Rogers of the local Shambhala Buddhist as well as the current and evolving teachings of their particular Centre has been studying, practicing and teaching in the faith. The last class will be a discussion group, including all 5 faith Kootenays for over 40 years representatives. We will discuss future directions, collaboration, need • Janet Stangvik is a minister with Centers for Spiritual Living, for ancient wisdoms and more, in our ever expanding scientific, an organization of over 400 North American churches, which knowledgeable and diverse world. embrace the power of prayer and positive thinking.

CALLIGRAPHY FOR BEGINNERS In a world saturated with computer generated fonts, artists and Thursdays – Nov. 3, 10, 17, 24 - 12:00 – 1:30 pm crafters are turning to the organic art of hand lettering. This course Instructor: Laura Duncan offers a broad scope, starting with basic calligraphic letter forms. $12 plus tax - 4 sessions. Enrollment: Min 6 / Max 10 Laura Duncan has been a calligrapher for over thirty years. She is Location: Silver King Campus Rm. 114 also a graphic designer.

COACHING FOR CONFLICT RESOLUTION assist people to create clarity and fresh perspectives and develop new Mondays – Nov. 7, 14, 21 - 1:30 – 3:00 pm strategies for addressing conflict. Participants will learn practical Instructor: Beryl Clayton approaches and skills that will help to coach others towards creating $9 plus tax - 3 sessions. Enrollment: Min 8 / Max 20 their own solutions. Location: Silver King Campus Rm. 114 Beryl Clayton brings 20 years of experience as a mediator and In your community of family, friends, neighbours, do you find teacher of collaborative conflict resolutions along with a passion yourself being a peacemaker? When people seek our support in for helping people to listen to each other. She volunteers with the conflict situations, our responses can positively contribute to a community mediation programs of Nelson, Good Neighbours and the collaborative resolution. This interactive workshop explores ways to MIR Centre for Peace.

LiR Journal • 8 • September 2016 • 9 • Multi-Session Courses • Fall Term, September - December 2016

MUSICAL PORTRAITS OF TIME & PLACE Session 2: The music of Edward Elgar captures the Spirit of the Age Thursdays – Nov. 10, 17, 24, Dec.1 - 3:30 – 5:00 pm in Edwardian England. Instructor: Alex Nichol Session 3: The music of Vaughan Williams was influenced by, and $12 plus tax - 4 sessions. Enrollment: Min 8 / Max 20 reflects, the English countryside, its history and its folk Location: Silver King Campus Rm. 16 traditions. Session 1: Carmina Burana by Carl Orff—a setting of ribald yet thought Session 4: Sibelius conjures up northern landscapes. provoking songs by the “Wandering Scholars” of the 12th and 13th centuries. The music, though modern and very rhythmic, Alex Nichol was an orchestral musician in Canada and the UK for transports you back in time, while the lyrics penned by these 25 years before moving to the Okanagan where he and his wife medieval “hippies” provide a glimpse of the late Middle Ages established Nichol Vineyard Winery. Retiring in 2006, his focus has through the eyes of the socially marginalized. returned to music-making.

THE WINE OF SPAIN & CHILE In this course you’ll learn about the Wine Regions of Spain and Chile Thursdays – Nov.10 (Spain), Nov. 24 (Chile) - 2:00 – 4:00 pm and the grape varieties grown in these countries. Instructor: Deb Smith Wine tasting will be involved – 3 wines. $6 plus tax; plus a Wine Tasting Fee $5 to be paid at the first session Deb Smith is a Wine Educator and a Wine Wizard who is certified 2 sessions. Enrollment: Min 8 / Max 12 through Wine and Spirits Education Trust. She has previously taught Location: Silver King Campus Rm. 114 wine courses at LiR.

FACEBOOK FOR BEGINNERS Part II: You’ll need to have a Facebook account for this workshop! Wednesdays – Nov. 16, 23 - 10:00 – 12:00 noon Come and learn more basics about social media and using Facebook Instructors: Staff from Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy to stay connected. We’ll explore making and sharing posts, finding Facilitator: Joan Exley friends, and sharing photos. $6 plus tax - 2 sessions. Enrollment: Min 8 / Max 15 Information about the presenters will be supplied at a later date Location: Silver King Campus Computer Lab Room 116 once staffing for the Columbia Basin Alliance is in place in early Part I: Learn to set up your Facebook account and build your profile. September. Once you are set up on Facebook, you’ll learn to update your status and make your first posts on social media.

Community Living British Columbia Offered in Conjunction with Nelson & District Community Centre. 250.354.4FUN

USE IT OR LOSE IT AQUA FIT Mondays, Sep. 26 – Dec 12, 1:30 – 2:30 pm Thursdays, 1:30 – 2:30 Instructor: TBA The pool formally re-opens October 17. We hope to begin an LiR $22 plus tax. Quote bar code 36739. Aqua Fit course as soon as possible after that. (11 sessions, no class Oct 10) Enrollment: Min 16 / Max 19 Look for details later. Location: NDCC Fitness Studio Physical activity is one of the most important things people can do as Both floor and pool exercises will be offered depending they become older. The class will focus on strengthening muscles you upon the completion of the pool repairs. use for daily activities with the goal of keeping you moving. Each class Details will be announced at a later date. will include a cardio component, muscle conditioning and flexibility. Watch for email announcements to members.

Of special note — NO EARLY REGISTRATIONS — Registration will begin at 9:00 am September 9 by phone, by email, or in person.

Selkirk is undergoing major renovations this year, so room assignments may be subject to change. Please be patient, we’ll notify you well in advance of any changes.

LiR Journal • 9 • September 2016 For the fridge door! For course and registration Membership Requirements: information contact: Retired persons, age 50+, LiR Calendar of Activities • Diane Watts, 250.352.7493 are welcome [email protected] Annual membership is $15 +gst September — December 2016 • Roger Oliver, 250.229.5606 (total $15.75) In partnership with Selkirk College [email protected] Cost $3 per session

Drop In Sessions – mostly Fridays, 10am, Silver King Campus, Room 16, $3 at the door

Fri. Sep.9 ��Meet the Instructors Diane Watts. Short presentations by Instructors of the Fall 2016 courses. FREE. Course registration begins. Wed. Sep. 14 ��Pub Quiz followed by lunch at Finley’s. Presenter - Brian Deon 10am at Seniors’ Centre, 717 Vernon Street for a morning of learning and laughter Thur. Sep. 15 ��Castlegar Sculptures Field Trip Trip leader - Sandra Tozer. A guided walking tour of 31 new sculptures in Castlegar. Afterwards join others for lunch. Fri. Sep. 16 ��Conflict Resolution Presenter - Beryl Clayton. Conflicts between people are inevitable. We need to build skills that can turn conflicts into opportunities. Beryl will lead us in an interactive session. Beryl mentors volunteer mediators of the Nelson Good Neighbours program. She has 20 years of experience as a mediator and as a teacher of collaborative conflict resolution. Mon. Sep. 19 ��Geology Field Trip Trip leader - Lesley Anderton. For description and registration see page 5. Fri. Sep. 23 ��The BC Wolf Cull Presenter - Dennis Hamilton. The BC government begins its third year of killing wolves in order to save endangered mountain caribou. Dennis is a professional biologist and consultant, who has participated in mountain caribou research and management, locally and internationally for over 30 years. Fri. Sep. 30 ��The Opportunities of Ageing Presenters - Lee Reid and Linda Moore. Through small group discussions we will explore how we can live fully as we age physically. Lee and Linda co-facilitate groups on aging. Lee worked for many years in mental health and addictions, and recently founded SEEDS. Linda’s background is in coaching. Fri. Oct. 7 ��Current Event TBA Wed. Oct. 12 ��Pub Quiz followed by lunch at Finley’s. Presenter - Brian Deon 10am at Seniors’ Centre, 717 Vernon Street for a morning of learning and laughter Fri. Oct. 14 �� Ogopogo Gait — a naturalist explains. Presenter - Alistair Fraser. Come and discover the leviathan that shares our lake. Learn what kind of animal is Ogopogo, understand its seemingly erratic behavior, and even find out what are the most likely places and times for a sighting. More brilliant photographs of Kootenay Lake. Fri. Oct. 21 ��Selkirk College and our Community Presenter - Angus Graeme. The President of Selkirk College re- turns for a conversation with us. Fri. Oct. 28 ��TBA Fri. Nov. 4 ��Current Events TBA Wed. Nov. 9 ��Pub Quiz followed by lunch at Finley’s. Presenter - Brian Deon 10:00 am at Seniors’ Centre, 717 Vernon Street for a morning of learning and laughter Fri. Nov. 11 ��Remembrance Day No LiR activity Fri. Nov. 18 ��Hubble Images Wayne Holmes. Dazzling images of the Cosmos photographed by the Hubble Spacecraft. A presentation by Nelson’s The Star Guy. Fri. Nov. 25 ��Wildlife images of the Kootenays Jim Lawrence. Jim is an ethical photographer and environmentalist, who lives in Meadow Creek near the wild Lardeau River area. He will present two of his latest wildlife videos. Fri. Dec. 2 ��Nelson’s refugees: a report Members of the Nelson’s refugee committees and their friends. Fri. Dec. 9 ��Christmas Social

LiR Journal • 10 • September 2016 • 11 • Reviews of some events and courses enjoyed this year. . .

The Italian-Canadian Internment Exhibit A local resident, Christine DeMarco By Carolyn McCartney also known as Primo Secco, spoke of undreds of Italian Canadians, including seven men from Trail, her grandfather, Augusto Secco who Hwere taken from their homes, separated from their families, was interned in Thunder Bay, Ontario. and held in prison or remote camps during the Second World War. She told us the story of her family and This exhibit revealed part of our nation’s and the Trail community’s the injustices that they endured which history that is virtually unknown. The Canadian government claimed brought a very personal touch to our tour. they were threats to national security, fearing many had ties to In the next part of our tour we visited Italian fascist organizations. Some were released within a few months the library where we were provided and others remained in custody for up to five years. No interned with a quiet place to sit and relax. The Trail ‘Friends of the Library’ Italian was ever charged or convicted of any war-related crime. surprised us with refreshments and some delicious baked goodies. Trail is the only city in Western Canada to display the exhibit which is Our tour then led us on to the Museum where we were given a on loan from the Columbus Centre in Toronto. Those listed from Trail brief history of Trail, the industry there and how it has grown and are Ermando Cecconi; Eugenio Della Lana; Augusto Secco; Pompilio developed. After filling our minds with information we met at the Di Vito; Silvio Romano; Ennio Vittorio Fabri; and Fioravante Tenisci, a Colander Restaurant to enjoy filling our tummies, socialize and have Cominco worker sent to the Kananaskis then Petawawa for three years. a few laughs before we journeyed home.

then a presentation by Henning von Krogh on the early mining days New Denver History at the old Knox Hall. After that the Silvery Slocan Museum brought & Old Growth Forest Field Trip to life the lives of these early settlers and miners. By Margaret Hornby Now we are on our way to Kaslo, 15 minutes or more we see the ur trip to New Denver was a journey back to the recent and sign, Retallack. Here we turn off the highway and you enter the Oancient history of this region. We met at the Nikkei Internment amazing sight of the Old Growth Cedar Forest. The path takes us Centre, a memorial to the 22,000 Japanese Canadians who were close enough that you can reach out and touch these monuments. interned during WW II. Then walk a block over to the beautiful For they are certainly that. I believe they should be declared a world Japanese gardens. Lunch in the park, a stroll through the town and heritage site.

Our Region’s First People through” the Kootenay-Arrow Lakes region, By Ross Klatte she learned; they were extinct, according to the government). Before long, she said, “I felt a tapping n May 20 LiR members were treated to a tremendously interesting, on my shoulder.” That tap, tap, tapping had to do informative and lively slide-show and talk about our region’s first O with what began to seem her mission to learn as inhabitants by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes, author of The Geography of much as she could about the Sinixt and to write Memory: Recovering Stories of a Landscape’s First People. about it. What she discovered was that the Sinixt Eileen,was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. “I was had been permanent residents of the Kootenay- very introverted, loved to read, and had an early fascination with Arrow Lakes region and probably arrived here not nature.” She developed an interest in Native American history and far behind the retreating glaciers at the end of the culture. In 1985 she moved to Vancouver, where Eileen obtained an last ice age. MA in English Literature from UBC. In 1994, they moved to Nelson. Five years in the making, Eileen’s book is a fund Here, Eileen, grew interested in local history — specifically in the of concise, well-written information, including Sinixt, the region’s aboriginal inhabitants, whom the early explorers a pre-historical and historical time-line and a and traders knew as the Lakes. handy list of some of the wild plants used by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes She was at once struck by the lack of information, and by the the Sinixt. First published in 2002, the book has misinformation, about the Sinixt (They only occasionally “passed gone through a number of editions. It is well worth reading.

Soul Passages – Preparing for Death a central ‘job’ teaching others about dying and helping to create By Aira Windtree ceremony. Together, the created rituals become personalized and healing, reclaiming death as a meaningful and sacred transition for or some, the rituals of dying and death are clearly set within the dying person and those around them. Freligious practices. For many others, those rituals have disappeared, replaced by social, medical and funeral professionals. Sarah glows as she speaks of her work. From helping children deal That can leave family members and friends feeling disconnected from with the loss of a loved pet, to planning a funeral, her services their loved one and from each other. are always focused on providing the peaceful release of a life and healing for those remaining. “We need to change how we look at death”, states Sarah Kerr, PhD and practicing Death Midwife. “Death is part of our soul’s sacred journey.” Sarah recently held a workshop in Nelson on preparing for death. Sarah sees her work as creating a meaningful, safe and loving space She is well known to the hospice community here. Information about for the dying and their circle of family and friends as they travel other courses and individual services can be found on her extensive together toward a peaceful death. The dying person can also have website: www.SoulPassages.ca

LiR Journal • 11 • September 2016 Reviews of some events already enjoyed this year. . .

A Spring Picnic at Lakeside Park. June 14 Nelson Streetcar. June 17 By Gerda Liebenow here was a visit to the Number 23. he first LiR picnic happened to T Tbe on a rainy day! In spite of the cold temperature, 31 people came out with delicious food to share and the meat lovers enjoyed the use of the barbecue. A great way to finish an LiR year!

Our Poetry Group Milestones Two dragging feet Carried Two wobbly legs ane Merks, LiR member, has long Over the threshold Jbeen recognized for going above Of uncertainty and beyond with her volunteer work, Into a room of especially at the Capitol Theatre. For Strangers the past four years she has been the On whose faces fairy godmother of the Pantomime, I saw creating costumes for all kinds Most surely of characters including Humpty Accomplished poets Dumpty! She helped Kyla Hurst on the Rock of Ages, All. Jorinda, Chicago and other productions. She has retired as a graphic designer but still loves coming up with unusual Unlike myself innovative stuff. “I work totally for fun. If I don’t like it, I Who plays with words don’t do it!” says Jane. In paltry poems v Of pets and children lyne Galm recently finished a 10 month Labouring through each tedious line Acourse in textiles at the Kootenay With end results to make words rhyme. School of the Arts, Selkirk College. Her colourful designs of aprons and other Since that kitchen and home articles were on display at Momentous day KSA’s show and sale in June. We have grown Through encouragement v Through sharing our uniqueness on Welwood, LiR resident historian, Through stumbling and laughter. Rhas the following article published in the 2016 summer edition of the BC History We write Magazine: “South Kootenay Board of Trade Now Brouhaha” when Kaslo pirates embarked for With confidence Nelson to hijack the South Kootenay Board With acceptance of Trade, May 1893! With comfort With friends.

The highlight for me for all time Submissions of major member Milestones such as new publications, Is learning that lines awards, big birthdays and newsworthy items with photos are welcomed. Don’t have to rhyme. Please email Grace Devaux at [email protected] Deanna Reid July 2016

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